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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Materials Research"”.
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Design and Development of an Accelerated Material Synthesis Platform for Automated Materials Research
Materials development is the foundation for innovation in many industries and fields, however, this process is traditionally slow and resource-intensive. Most often, new materials are developed and characterized on the time scale of years which can limit the pace of scientific and industry …
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Development of a plasma source ion implantation facility for the modification of materials' surfaces
… [10-50 keV] plasma ions are implanted into materials to modify surface properties, achieving surface hardening, increased wear and corrosion resistance. Plasma Source Ion Implantation is alos used for doping semiconductors and could form an essential step in the manufacture of multilayered …
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TRINIDY: Transport of Ions and Neutrons in Dynamic Materials
… the use of TRINIDY within the realm of applied materials research.
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Multinuclear NMR Investigations of Sol-Gel Systems
The inorganic polymeric materials known as oxide glasses are normally prepared by the fusion of refractory oxides, followed by rapid cooling to avoid devitrification. A topic of current interest in materials research is the preparation of oxide glasses by the hydrolysis and polymerization of metal …
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An experimental study of special anchors in sand and clay
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1947
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End-capped oligothiophene dimers incorporating TTF, metal dithiolene and spirocentric cores
… electronics have led it to the forefront of materials research both industrially and academically. Electroactive organic species can have wildly varied properties and take on two main different forms: i. conjugated macromolecules, including polymers and metallopolymers and oligomers thereof; …
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Monte Carlo Simulations of Powder Diffraction at Time-of-Flight Neutron Sources
… diffraction at the SMARTS (Spectrometer for Materials Research at Temperature and Stress) diffractometer in the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. The simulations include all the instrumental components, such as the moderator, guide system, collimator, detector banks and sample. The results …
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A parametric study of delaminations in an aluminum-lithium alloy
… alloys at the forefront of aerospace materials research. Delaminations in these alloys play a significant role in their fracture processes. Therefore, a more complete understanding of the factors that influence the behavior of these delaminations and their corresponding effect on the …
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Microindentation for Characterization of Interactions in Liquid Metal Composites
… are a rapidly expanding field within function materials research. Composed of isolated LM droplets dispersed in an elastomer, these composites can exhibit properties that include electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and programmable and anisotropic mechanical properties. …
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Scratch tests : a new way of evaluating the fracture toughness of materials
… for the assessment of the fracture toughness of materials from scratch tests. Dimensional Analysis highlights two major processes at work during scratch tests: plastic yielding and fracture dissipation. An original set-up of controlled laboratory tests on paraffin wax allows us to identify …
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Data-Driven Design of Spontaneously-Organized Super-Peptides on Atomic Single Layer Solids
… in particular, and a wide range of biological research topics, in general, during last decades. A similar approach is gaining momentum in materials research but has garnered limited attention in areas such as the design of soft interfaces formed by solid-binding peptides at solid materials …
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Dynamic environmental transmission electron microscopy
… of reversible and irreversible processes in materials can be imaged and recorded with either stroboscopic or single-shot movie-mode methods. To develop the DETEM the Hitachi H-9500 300 kV TEM installed at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, has been modified to accommodate the …
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Assessment of FRP-confined concrete : understanding behavior and issues in nondestructive evaluation using radar
… use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials for strengthening and retrofitting of concrete columns and bridge piers has urged the development of' an effective non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methodology. Radar technologies have shown great potential for assessing the structural and …
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Uncovering Perovskite Degradation Equations Using Scientific Machine Learning
Many important materials are metastable or unstable under certain operating regimes. The degradation mechanisms can be varied and complex, making the discovery of underlying differential equations (DEs) through a first-principles approach challenging. This invites the application of data-science …
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Transient Grating Spectroscopy: Compact System Geometry Developments and Improved Software
… surface. It has uses across many areas of materials research. Current TGS systems require complex optics tables taking up cumbersome amounts of space, restricting TGS to a predominantly lab-based method. This thesis first outlines a new design for TGS systems: an asymmetric probe, planar …
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Development of mitigation measures for safe transportation of hazardous materials
The number of hazardous materials transported by truck mode and also the quantities shipped continues to grow every year. In recognition of the potential disasters associated with the occurrence of the release of hazardous materials, several studies have been conducted on various aspects of the …
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Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions and Steady States in Biased Diffusion of Two Species
… asymmetric exponential distributions. This research was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation through the Division of Materials Research.
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Combustion quality and regimes for standard and alternative fuels
… in optical engines, and soot analysis using materials research techniques, in order to improve the combustion and emission performance of the modern ICE. Alcohols, especially n-butanol, have been studied as potential fuels and have shown to be a possible alternative to pure gasoline. In this …
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Breaking the bottleneck in radiation materials science with transient grating spectroscopy
… environments that present a challenge for the materials engineer. Nuclear materials research and development is a subject of managing constraints: a component must be proven to retain its integrity in the reactor environment for the entirety its operating lifetime, and the material must not …
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